--- title: 'How to Get Free Crypto Airdrops (Zero Investment) - Step By Step Guide' source: 'https://youtube.com/watch?v=WPi-YjvIlk8' video_id: 'WPi-YjvIlk8' date: 2026-07-18 duration_sec: 1496 channel: 'Kirtish Vyas (CoinLyte)' --- # How to Get Free Crypto Airdrops (Zero Investment) - Step By Step Guide > Source: [How to Get Free Crypto Airdrops (Zero Investment) - Step By Step Guide](https://youtube.com/watch?v=WPi-YjvIlk8) ## Summary This video explains what crypto airdrops are, how to participate in them safely, and how to identify legitimate airdrops versus scams. The presenter provides a step-by-step demo of participating in an Ethena airdrop, covering wallet connection, token swapping, and staking. ### Key Points - **Historical Airdrop Examples** [00:03] — Almost all participants in a notable airdrop received tokens worth an average of $400, now worth about $12. In 2023, Arbitrum's airdrop gave users around 1859 tokens worth ~$2500 at launch. In 2025, Hyper Liquid's Hype token airdrop gave over 94,000 users 64 tokens each, currently worth ~$24 each (~$2000 per user). - **Airdrop Scams on the Rise** [01:06] — In 2024-25, many big scams related to airdrops resulted in users losing $10 billion worth of crypto. From 2017 to now, about $20 billion in legal airdrops have occurred, but scams have also increased. - **What is an Airdrop?** [03:35] — An airdrop is a marketing technique where a new platform distributes free tokens to users who perform certain actions (e.g., trading, holding tokens) to generate organic growth. Typically, 30% of total tokens are allocated to the community. - **Hyper Liquid Airdrop Example** [05:17] — Hyper Liquid, a decentralized exchange, gave away 31% of its 1 billion tokens (~310 million) to the community for free. Users who traded on the platform received free tokens. The token price went from $45 to $60, and early participants could have earned ~$4000 worth of free crypto. - **Ethena Airdrop Criteria** [06:41] — Ethena, a decentralized stablecoin platform, rewards users who hold its USD or ENA tokens. No trading is required; simply holding the token in your wallet makes you eligible for rewards. - **How to Find Legitimate Airdrops** [08:21] — Avoid generic airdrop listing sites like AirdropAlert. Use curated platforms like DApp Radar (for handpicked airdrops) and One Click Airdrop (for detailed eligibility criteria). Always cross-check multiple sources. - **Using DApp Radar and One Click Airdrop** [11:44] — DApp Radar shows limited but high-quality picks. One Click Airdrop provides step-by-step criteria, including whether capital is required. For example, Ethena's Season 4 airdrop is confirmed and ongoing. - **Verifying Airdrop Legitimacy** [14:48] — Search Google for the project name + 'airdrop' to check if campaigns are active. Visit the official site to confirm. For Ethena, Season 5 is a reward campaign, not a traditional airdrop, but still offers free tokens. - **Step-by-Step Participation Demo** [15:53] — Connect a wallet (e.g., Trust Wallet) to the Ethena platform. Swap USDT for USDE on Arbitrum chain. Hold USDE in wallet to qualify for rewards. Optionally stake USDE for higher rewards (5.7% APY). - **Staking and Reward Mechanism** [23:40] — Staking USDE converts it to sUSDE, which increases in value over time as rewards accrue. When you unstake, you receive more USDE than you originally staked. The dashboard shows staked funds. ### Conclusion Crypto airdrops can provide free tokens, but scams are prevalent. Use curated platforms like DApp Radar and One Click Airdrop to find legitimate opportunities, and always verify through official sources before participating. ## Transcript through which almost all the participants were allocated tokens worth an average of $400p, that too free of cost, which is worth around $12 today. Similarly, in 2023, Arbit Trump made the biggest airdrop ever. Where the average user was given around 1859 Arbitrum tokens. Whose price at the time of launch was around $2500. Which means free crypto currency. If I talk about the latest 2025, the biggest airdrop till date is Hyper Liquid's Hype token. More than 94,000 users have been given free Hype tokens. The 64 tokens. If I tell you its price today, then the value of Hype token is around $24. value of Hype token is around $24. Which means on an average $2000 each user got free cryptocurrency. Who participated in this airdrop of Hyper Liquid. But on the flip side, if we look at 2024 and 25, there have been many big scams related to such airdrops. Where many crypto users who participated had their total worth of crypto currency worth $10 billion stolen from their wallets. Eventually, if you collect historical data, then from 2017 till now, free airdrops worth about $20 billion have taken place, which were legal. But along with this, scams also increased. So the question will also come to your mind that what is this airdrop after all ? How can you participate in this type of airdrop as a beginner ? And the most interesting thing is which airdrop is a scam and which airdrop is legit? How can you figure it out from which platform? And at last we will talk about this also. I will show you with a demo we can form an airdrop by interacting with this type of platform if I am participating in an airdrop right now. Guys my name is Kirti and on this channel we talk about fundamental learning of crypto so that you can build wealth in the long term. Well, airdrops are not the only way in crypto where you can get rewards and claim crypto for free. Apart from this, there is staking , cloud mining, yield farming. We have made detailed videos on these three also. So if you like this video and want some similar information related to it, then I will give the links of all three videos in the description. But crypto is full of scam and just a disclaimer. This is a completely educational video. Not a financial advice. The sole purpose of this video is to show you how these airdrops are ultimately made. Why do people participate in it and how do people So whatever platform I will use or tell you in this video, these are mostly my own examples. interacting with any of these, make sure to do your due diligence and properly research the platform before interacting as crypto is a highly volatile and risky market. But we have solved many of your such problems. Under Coin we have launched an 11 day crypto crash program. fundamentals of crypto, the security of crypto , how to design your portfolio, and how to hold crypto in the long term. We have covered this in detail here with a recorded session. If you want to join this also, then I will give its link below. Let's start without any further delay Let's start without any further delay what is this airdrop farming and why is it so popular today? Before knowing this thing, let us understand it with a small analogy. Imagine that today you are using a platform like YouTube. Why are you doing this? Because here you get free upload videos here because my marketing gets done and at the same time I because my marketing gets done and at the same time I That is the reason why I am creating content on YouTube. Right? But tomorrow I will launch a platform in the name of Coinite and I will you can also watch videos on our Coinite platform. You can interact. You not be interested. But instead of this, I should add a reward to it and the reward should be that whoever uses my Coinite platform will be uses my Coinite platform will be uses it, the more shares will be allotted to him. So 10 to 15% of you will go and sign up on Coinite right now because you know that whatever tokens you will get or whatever shares you will get, later whenever that company goes live, you can sell its tokens in the market and generate proper earnings from it. This is what AirDrop is. One type of marketing technique is that whenever a platform is launched, it has to do its free marketing, so it gets organic growth only if it distributes 30 tokens out of its total 100 tokens in the community but gives it to those who actually follow the instructions given by them and eligibility criteria which is done by Vary. For example, look here. Now we talked about hyper liquid. What is hyper liquid? It is a decentralized crypto exchange. Like in India you use Jio, you use Coin DCX What is this? Crypto exchange. Well, it is popular. Even Binance was the first to introduce the fundamentals of airdrops, which then launched in the market. What Hyper Liquid said right now is that as of today, the total number of tokens on our platform is around 1 billion. Out of all the tokens I have right now, I will give away approximately 31% of these tokens to the community for free. Which means that there are around 300 million - 310 million tokens. I will give it away for free to people in the community who visit our platform. We will trade in crypto here. Whether you trade in future or spot, whatever features we are providing, if you trade on those features, then on the basis of trading we will give you free tokens which you can claim anytime. So many people came to platforms like Hyper Liquid at the end of 2024 and 25 and it boomed tremendously and because of this the boomed tremendously and because of this the price of Hyper Liquid went from 45 to think $54 and reached its maximum of $60 which is currently ranging around $25. But imagine those people who participated in that Hyper Liquid airdrop fuzz, who got an airdrop fuzz, who got an sold this token on their pick, they would have got around $4000 worth of free cryptocurrency. So this is called a decentralized exchange launched its own airdrop. criteria is different that the more a person trades here, the more not trading platforms. For example, imagine this Ethena. Now what is this Ethena? This makes it one of the few decentralized stable coins. And it says that whoever holds our decentralized stable coin, we will give him the ENA token of our network for free. Look at Ethena which is one of my favorite made a detailed video on this. You can go and watch this video. Its price as of today is around 23 cents. But it has touched its all-time high around $1.5. So, Ethena these types of platforms adopt the technique of claiming rewards in such a way that you hold our USD token or you hold our ENA token. Just keep this token in your wallet. You don't have to make any trades. So in that case also you can claim the reward here. So in this way different platforms come up with different eligibility criteria and if you know how you can claim the rewards here in this platform then anyone can then anyone can because of this, many people think that this is a scam launched by Ethena and they go to some scammy websites and because of this they suffer a loss, which you saw was Rs 10 billion within 2024-25. Why? Because many scammers create exact replica websites. You connect your wallet here and as soon as you Right? And that is why it is most important to find out where these genuine airdrops are taking place. participate. And that's our chapter number two. And in this list, there are three such popular platforms. What happens generally? When people talk about AirDrop, they go straight to Google. Type in airdrop here and where most scams happen. Airdrop for example. Even two, almost every type of airdrop is listed on this website. But this is where people get stuck the most. Because there is no well research airdrop here. There are many airdrops listed here that are ideal for scamming you. So you have to avoid such websites. And how to avoid it: Within that list, Guys are two popular platforms that handpick or curate and list out airdrops. The first platform in that list is called A D App Radar Decentralized Application Radar. If you go to Airdrop in its rewards section, here you will see which airdrops are happening at the moment or such popular projects launching their airdrops. And it is not necessary that every airdrop comes in the beginning. Sometimes airdrops also come in the middle when the project is already underway. Why? The reason for this is that they want to do more marketing and engage people. So if you look in this list, you will see a name, what is this poly market? Today, prediction market has become a huge niche within crypto. Like you people used to use Dream 11 or there were many such prediction apps through which you used to predict and whoever predicts gets rewarded accordingly. Likewise, Poly Market is a huge see on Polygon's blockchain. We made a video on this on Polygon. So here that this is going to happen now, that is going to happen now and that is why they do not have any token of their own as of today and their plan is that we will bring token in the future. So you get such information here on the airdrop website that there is a polygon. They have confirmed that an airdrop is coming here. But its date is not confirmed yet. Which means that if any scammy website is roaming in the market asking you to participate in the Poly Market airdrop, then that is purely a scam. The reason for this is that it has been confirmed. When news circulates in the market, But here it was told that brother this is going to happen. But how will it happen? There is no clarity on that right now. There will definitely be an airdrop of this. But there is no clarity on what will come and when. And that's why this type of platform helps you figure out better airdrops. you may get scammed. So you have to be careful with this. Even two this is a very good platform. You can also double check by going here. to participate in the airdrop, what are the stages, etc. from here. But never ever rely on one source always cross check multiple sources. So this is one way. Another popular website that will provide you with helpful information about airdrops is Guys One Click. I will also provide the link for this in the description. Remember, whenever I post anything, I try to provide so that you do n't get scammed. So I will also give its link in the description. You can come and see it on this platform now. And once again DA Radar where there are very limited picks but here you show whatever is going to happen in the market and here you can do further research. Right? So right now it is telling that brother Ethena, its airdrop is already going on and around $20 million funding is allocated here. Whoever will participate in this airdrop. Now whenever you come to this platform, you can ultimately click on it. He is in A+ grade here. Here it is in A plus grade. So you see that Ethena has a season 4 airdrop that has been confirmed and is ideally going on right now. Now there are some other criteria where you can participate in this airdrop. Remember, it will also say Capital Required, which means that you must have a separate existing cryptocurrency to participate in this airdrop. But there are many airdrops where ideally you should not have cryptocurrency. Simply they tell you to come to our platform and perform this action and then you are eligible for an airdrop. But mostly all the airdrops that come today capital. You have to lock it or stake it on that platform. Like what I said in the case of Ethena, here Ethena says that brother, our token is ENA, whoever holds this particular token or holds USD, only he will get the airdrop. Now to hold it, you will obviously have to purchase this token. Obviously, in this way, on these platforms, you are told that there are different methods here. First, either you buy our existing token of Ethena and after buying it, keep it in your wallet. Later you can swipe it inside USDE. Which means that you go to our platform and keep the USDE token in your wallet and as long as it is in your wallet, whatever reward we give, you will also get a certain reward for it. Similarly, the second option here is that you can ignore USDT, if you want then you can hold our Stake ENA, you can hold Stake USD or you can hold ENA token, if you hold any of our tokens then also you are eligible for the reward, so these are different conditions, either you do this or you do this or you do this, this is optional, if you are seeing an option that you do not steps, then in that case also you are eligible for our reward, so always before going to any platform, you must come to One Clip and check their respective criteria, for example, right now Its criteria is that brother, you should follow these steps. As you follow you will be eligible for Airdrop. And here you can see that you are follow these steps. There is no capital requirement for this. So you have to use these two platforms. First DF radar. Go there and see. There do further research on it. The second one is done with one click. By coming here you can check the eligibility criteria to know exactly what needs to be done. Obviously, what did we find out now ? We came to know that brother ENA and ENA is one of my trusted projects which I have been hold it in his token. And if Ethna is running any airdrop today, then participate in it and try to claim its free tokens. Obviously not a financial advice, we made a detailed video on ENA, please go and watch it. made a detailed video on ENA, please go and watch it. from here I got an option that brother Ethena is running airdrop on today's date. Would ? No. I'll quickly go to Google and type in, "Is Ethena running any airdrops in 2026?" And here I can clearly see that no brother, Ethena is not running any airdrop campaign right now. But yes, Ethena is still distributing points to many users in different ways. Which is exactly like airdrop. You will get free ENA tokens here. So in this way, if I go to Google and type here, I will automatically see Ithna Airdrop Season Five which is the latest option and Ithna Reward Campaign of Season Five which is taking me to its official site. So obviously here I would think that yes brother, Ethena is not doing airdrops in Season Five right now but is running a reward campaign where people are given free ENA tokens as a reward. And like airdrop is very easy. Whenever you want something, you just have to follow a few steps. But investment in rewards have their own criteria. So somewhere I have felt claim free rewards here. I still need to know more about it. For this, first of all I will go to the official site of Ithna and imagine that for now I come to the official site of Ithna. And after coming here I launch its app. decentralized platform of Ethna. After coming here a reward option here. Vi means that Ethena is rewarding people in today's date. ? Suppose here I come to the anyone has to claim a reward today, it will definitely go to the screen. And this is what they say after appearing on the screen that brother, whoever holds stake Ethena with us or stakes ENA tokens will news from its official platform. Which means that obviously Ethena has completed season four right now and obviously for those who will participate in season five, the pay free reward system is applicable here. So in All his points have to be gone through. You can also simply check by going to Google I checked this before this video what is the reward system of Ethna? So here the that we are currently giving rewards to people in this way. This is the section. So What's up now? As soon as you come to that platform, you will see that the Season Five Ethena Reward campaign is currently going on here. And all those who participated in season four can claim their free tokens here. So here it becomes genuine that yes brother he is doing this work. Now as we went to One Click Airdrop and saw said, either you have existing capital, then you hold the USDE token here or you lock any of your tokens here, then even after locking, you will get some free tokens and with that token, you quickly lock something here and see. So as I come to the side, season five is already running right now. So in that case I see two options here on the screen. First to lock or to stake. For those who don't know what staking is, here we have double advantages. First, what Ethena says is that either you can hold any of our tokens like USD, there are two tokens of ENA and USD, you can connect any token of yours to your wallet and whenever this season five concludes you can claim it or you claim the reward, you can stake the same with us, get a kind of FD done, so whoever gets the FD done, on that FD also these people are claiming here that we are giving a return here, an annual return of about 5%, here the return will also come like a bank FD. So here both are broadly advantageous. What is there to do now? Obviously, how can we participate in this way now ? First of all we will click on Connect Wallet. hot wallet we have right now is Trust Wallet. I will connect Trust Wallet. ? If you don't know then you can go and watch this video of ours. If you have a So what will he do? My extension here will try to connect with the already trusted wallet. Why? Because there are some funds lying inside it and from that fund I will hold the ENA token here. So let's go here if I log into this wallet which is what is the balance in this particular wallet as of today. want to connect your wallet. I will click on connect. today, if I log into Trust Wallet, you will see that I have USDT worth $243 in my wallet. Right now their criteria was either you take ENA tokens or you can also stake the same ENA tokens let's assume that for now I not have ENA token right now and right now I only have USD and if I have USD then I want to keep it, so I came to the swap option, so what do I have right now as of today, if you see, I have USDT on the Arbitrum chain, I will go here, quickly go to the Arbitrum chain and here I can see my USDT, so from here my wallet funds have come here, what do I have to do now, either I should keep ENA token or USD, so let me keep stable coin from stable coin so that any change in the price will not make any difference. So here I hold USD and I want to USD here. And here I put let's say just 10 and I have 10 USDT. If I convert it into USD, how much will come into my wallet? 10 USD tokens. You should cross verify this. Everything is soon as I click on Start Swiping. Here's where I'll switch. Which means that inside Trust Wallet yes brother start swiping. And here come here. Like I confirm it. What will happen now? My 10 USDT will be converted into 10 USD. And what will ultimately happen as I complete this process ? I just became eligible for the airdrop here. Because what was their criteria for airdrop? You keep USD tokens inside your wallet. But still the USD is not showing inside my wallet. So what should I do? I will go to Manage and type here like USDE. So as I type this here, whatever USDE token I receive from the Arbitrum blockchain will come into my wallet here. So for example, I select Arbitrum here which is selected. Now if I go back this time, along with USDT, a USDE token will also start coming into my wallet. So as you can see on the screen, it is completed. Now I come to the wallet. select the Arbitrum chain here, which is this one like this. So I do go to Manage Crypto and here it is showing USD on Arbitrum. As soon as I enable it, if it has been properly swiped in my wallet, then you can see that 9.99 has been deducted from the gas fee and it has come to me. Right now, if I simply hold it, then in future the rewards will automatically come here for me whenever this phase ends, to claim the reward, I can directly go to the claim section here n't make that much difference. Its value is But if I want to multiply my gains on this, what can I do ? I can come here to Rewards Pay or I can go to the Earn section. we saw that if someone stakes then he gets 40 times reward as compared to simply USD. If I want to stake it, then right now I have this many want to stake it, then right now I have this many what I can do is I'll refresh this page a little bit here USD. So the balance of my wallet will be visible to me here. Which is exactly what chain is mine on instead of Ethereum here like arbitrum like I will I have 9.99 right now. I'll click Max here and I'll have a stake of around 8.22 USD worth of tokens in my wallet. And as I click on staking, remember n't unlock it. So let's say I choose nine tokens here and click on Stake. So here I will get the confirmation option. And what this will do is it will stake all my tokens here. So in this way I can also increase the reward. Which I would have probably got 5x earlier but now I will get a return of 5.7% on it. Also, as soon as this reward claiming option comes, at that very moment I can claim different free tokens here in different ways. this process is completed you will understand that USD will be removed from your account and staked USD will be added to your wallet. Whenever you claim it in the future, give them back the stake USD. This will credit you back USD tokens into your wallet. So right now it will take 5 minutes and show you how the USD went from my wallet and the staked USD came in which we have staked on this platform. If you see on the screen now it is refresh this, I will refresh this page here. Ultimately, whenever you connect your wallet with this platform and if you go inside the dashboard section, you will always see your staked funds here. So as soon as the success screen comes up, you will see here in your wallet on the right hand side there is a token by the name of S USDE. 7.4 has already come into our account. You will say brother, I had given $9 for 7.4. The reason for this is that the value of this stock USD always keeps increasing with time as your reward comes. For example, if I open a stake of Ethana here, what is the price of USD? As of today, it stands at $1.21 and as your staking continues, as the reward increases, its price will increase. This means that in the future, if you give it back at $7.4 here, unclaim it or claim it, more USD will come back to your account, which was the minimum you gave at $9. So in this way you can participate in any airdrop here. It depends on what his criteria is. You Sometimes the tokens do not appear in your wallet so make sure then will you see these tokens visible here. Rest if you want to know exactly what staking is and how you can claim rewards through it. Go is and how you can claim rewards through it. Go watch this video right now.